Bring Science Dog Home from China

$4,545
of $4,500 goal

Pinkerton is a gibbon scat-detecting dog I'm working with in China. Please help me bring Pinkerton home to live with me for a well-deserved retirement. After 2 years in China, my little research assistant became my best friend, and I owe it to him to find a way to bring him home. Horribly, pet dogs are now being rounded up in Beijing andsold for meat!

"¨I had Pinkerton trained locally to help me find scat from gibbons in the mountains of China for my PhD research on primate genetics and conservation. He did a great job and even was featured in a few science news articles!

"¨Unfortunately, bringing a dog home from southwestern China is expensive. To navigate the regulations and fly him across Asia and the Pacific with me, I need to use a professional dog transport company. That's going to cost $4,500 that I don't have. "¨Can you help with Pink's retirement fund?

Here is a video of Pinkerton at work
finding scat. After I hide the gibbon scat under the third tile, I give
him the search command. When Pink finds the correct scent, he lays down
with his paws surrounding the scat. Check it out!

WE DID IT!!! PINKERTON IS COMING HOME! My stunned thanks to you all. We've raised the $4,500 and Pinkerton is coming home. I'm touched; I'm flabbergasted; I'm grateful. Thanks to all 110 donors: those who are old friends, colleagues, acquaintances, and amazingly, people I've never met. I can't ever thank you all enough for this. I'm finalizing arrangements with the pet transit company now, so Pink should be home in a week or two. Ever the optimist, here he is is in the lab sticking out his tongue at the naysayers.

Oh... Please dear God -let this magnificent creature come home to where he belongs-where he will be loved! Those dogs in that part of the world ...live in total hell! I pray you can bring him home! Will you please keep us posted & are you with him now? Please take care and keep him safe!

Oh... Please dear God -let this magnificent creature come home to where he belongs-where he will be loved! Those dogs in that part of the world ...live in total hell! I pray you can bring him home! Will you please keep us posted & are you with him now? Please take care and keep him safe!